Playing at the border of the Cold War

Kapitel in diesem Buch

1. Frontmatter i
2. Preface and Acknowledgments v
3. Table of Contents vii
4. Introduction 1
5. First Part. Creating relations between European states. Sport as tool of diplomacy
6. Playing at the border of the Cold War 17
7. An Even Colder War? 33
8. Athletes of Diplomacy 55
9. Second part. A European space of exchanges. Crossing the Iron Curtain with sport
10. The emergence of Europe-wide collaboration and competition 71
11. Building bridges between separated Europeans 85
12. Cooperation and conflict 109
13. Third Part. Globalizing sport. Europe as a site of international sporting diplomacy
14. “Shooting Hoops with Foreign Teams” 135
15. The Ghana Young Pioneers 157
16. “The Russian deadpan expert” vs “America’s white hope” 179
17. A forgotten “ping-pong diplomacy”? 195
18. Afterword 213
19. Bibliography 219
20. Contributors (by alphabetical order) 229
21. Index 233